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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

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#151201: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:12:53 AM

Some books I had to read in high school that I enjoyed were To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, and Joy Luck Club.

I really hated Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men. I don't remember what I thought of The Great Gatsby, though.

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#151202: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:30:18 AM

Yeah, I remember liking Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird well enough. I remember knowing what was happening in Gatsby well enough, but it wasn't until later that I was able to relate to it in the slightest. I remember thinking that ''The Scarlet Letter" was boring as all get out, though that might've been largely because the teacher didn't do the greatest job of teaching it.

Frankenstein was a good example of what I mentioned above. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I first had to read it (mainly because I was expecting something more along the lines of the movie monster version and was thus disappointed when most of the story turned out to be philosophizing on the nature of humanity), but when I looked back on it a few years later I found the themes to be really interesting.

edited 4th Apr '16 7:31:56 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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#151203: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:39:46 AM

[up]Totally agreed on The Scarlet Letter. I think that was the only book where I actually fell asleep while reading it.

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#151204: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:40:38 AM

I think I heard a quote somewhere that a classic is a book everybody praises but nobody reads.

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#151205: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:47:25 AM

I think it was Mark Twain who said that Paradise Lost was a book that nobody wants to read, but everyone wants to have read.

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#151206: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:56:26 AM

I can't think of ANYTHING I was told to read in English that I liked anywhere close to the stuff I was reading on my own. Doesn't help all the "What is the true meaning the author intends" "What does this represent in the greater context of the work that this particular color was used in this scene?" Junk that you all know how much I think is a load of pretentious hogwash that went along with it.

Now as to good books, the G.M. Barrow pony books need to be canon, there is just so many awesome things in them (baring some Early-Installment Weirdness ) Like the Princess Luna one.... hat has the Mane 6 using the Map... to play a massive game of Pony Risk. Also it has Tiberius, and Tiberius is awesome, seriously show, when will we get Tiberius introduced!?

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#151207: Apr 4th 2016 at 7:59:41 AM

I actually remember really liking The Giver when I read it in middle school. That book was great.

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#151208: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:02:49 AM

I never read the book actually. My best friend tells me I should read it though. I saw like four-fifths of the movie but never had the chance to finish it.

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#151209: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:05:03 AM

Ooof. The movie adaptation is not a good place to start.

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#151210: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:05:43 AM

They made me read Crime and Punishment in high school. I liked it so much, I wound up reading as much other stuff by Dostoevsky as I could.

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#151211: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:14:53 AM

I remember, I dunno, finding most of these harmless, though I can't remember a whole lot about Catcher or Crime and Punishment (the latter of which I actually picked for a summer reading assignment).

I also read 1984 pretty much out of a sense of obligation (I felt like if everyone just knows works by Pop-Cultural Osmosis instead of reading them the originals might as well not even need to exist, which would be a shame)... and really enjoyed the worldbuilding and just the whole experience.

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#151212: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:15:14 AM

I read The Giver (plus sequels), but not for school.

One thing I didn't mention before about Wakfu:

I thought it was cool that Elely was a female lop, since IIRC, all the lops shown in the series previously were male. The traits lops are associated with are stereotypically male, so it's nice to see that females can be dumb hot headed warriors too.

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#151213: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:24:13 AM

I will forever resent 1984 for ruining political discourse on the internet. (Not that there was a whole lot good with it to begin with, mind you.)

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#151214: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:45:52 AM

I remember reading Animal Farm in sixth grade. I'm pretty sure that was actually the first time I was formally taught about allegory and I thought it was really interesting. Obviously, they had to simplify it a bit because we obviously didn't know all the political context, but the general idea of "each character represents a real person or people" thing got through pretty well.

I also remember reading a fair bit of poetry I enjoyed in high school (I'm still a pretty big fan of Edgar Allan Poe and John Donne). Weirdly, I didn't mind analyzing the poetic devices and such too much either. As long as the analysis stayed in the vein of "why would he choose to use this word hear instead of these other synonyms" and such it wasn't too bad. Going past that into "but what did he mean?" was a headache.

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#151215: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:46:14 AM

[up][up]?I thought that was the Nazis' fault.tongue

[up]Heh, we didn't get to that until high school. Again, I enjoyed it. Not subtle at all, but it didn't need to be. Also inspired a great (if also Anvilicious) Pink Floyd album.

edited 4th Apr '16 8:49:40 AM by YamiVizziniX

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#151216: Apr 4th 2016 at 8:54:25 AM

I'm pretty sure political discourse was ruined roughly five minutes after "political power" was identified as a thing.

And yeah, looking back on it was really weird that they started us on that so early. I guess they figured that the whole "animal" theme was a good way to keep us interested in a concept we would've found boring otherwise. Weirdly, we also read Beowulf, or at least a summary of it with a few excerpts of a popular translation. Though in that case it was easier to keep us interested, since "a king hires a warrior to kill the monster terrorizing his people" is a story that sells itself.

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#151217: Apr 4th 2016 at 9:00:13 AM

I've never read Gatsy (though I probably should, given the reasoning to follow), but from what I've heard and what you guys have said, I'm pretty sure had I read it in high school, it would have hit a bit close, given that I always wanted to do these ambition group projects and I was stuck as a non-drinker hanging out with people who would get drunk into complete inertia (as in, past the point where the party stops being a social thing and everyone having either passed out or puking).

I remember Mockingbird quite fondly, though. Same with Flowers for Algernon.

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#151218: Apr 4th 2016 at 9:14:16 AM

Beowulf in 6th grade? I didn't even know how to pronounce it until somewhere in my middle/high school years.[lol]

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#151219: Apr 4th 2016 at 9:36:52 AM

Fun Fact: the animated Animal Farm adaptation was funded by the CIA because they thought it wasn't anti-Soviet enough.

edited 4th Apr '16 9:37:23 AM by Zennistrad

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#151220: Apr 4th 2016 at 9:50:26 AM

[up][up]I remember we spent a while going over how to pronounce the names. And like I said, it was less reading the actual thing (which was well beyond us) and more just getting an outline of the plot.

I actually picked up a translation of Beowulf this summer and read it. Good stuff.

edited 4th Apr '16 9:50:55 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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#151221: Apr 4th 2016 at 9:52:33 AM

As a side note, I ran through the numbers and it seems that the world that my original Pony setting takes place would be further out than Mars is from the Sun. Good thing Pegasi can control the weathernote ...

edited 4th Apr '16 11:03:44 AM by SantosLHalper

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#151222: Apr 4th 2016 at 10:44:52 AM

I had to read Animal Farm in seventh grade. We had a lot of the allusions explained to us, of course, but I definitely enjoyed the book.

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#151223: Apr 4th 2016 at 11:02:44 AM

Recently read A Confederacy of Dunces. Now that would have been interesting to read in High School.

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#151224: Apr 4th 2016 at 11:04:29 AM

My last English class novel was Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. I even visited the scene of the climax. grin

edited 4th Apr '16 11:05:14 AM by SantosLHalper

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#151225: Apr 4th 2016 at 11:16:55 AM

[up][up]That's a fun book.

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